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By accidentally touching a 5v line with a 12v wire. Kaput. End of a long friendship. It was my play-with motherboard. It had many a device on it. And to tell you how long it lasted: it was replaced with a Devil's Canyon mb.

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Nothing a pair of pci cards couldn't fix.I have a H61 with just usb 2.0 and Sata 3 and i don't feel to bad with my i5 2500 in there.Started off with a i3 2100 and this was the cheapest board around at the time.Gigabyte H61M-HD2.

USB 2.0 works just fine for my keyboard and mouse and gaming headset.Sata 6 would be nice but those write speeds come in handy maybe once in a full moon if your installing a game?Could a game installer even push 300+mbps on writes?

I like to think my set up is humble,i don't worry much about bottlenecks either considering i just went 1440p. I would need a pair of 980 ti and a sli compatible 1155 motherboard before my cpu even ended being a bottleneck for 1440p if even then lol.

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Nothing a pair of pci cards couldn't fix.I have a H61 with just usb 2.0 and Sata 3 and i don't feel to bad with my i5 2500 in there.Started off with a i3 2100 and this was the cheapest board around at the time.Gigabyte H61M-HD2.

USB 2.0 works just fine for my keyboard and mouse and gaming headset.Sata 6 would be nice but those write speeds come in handy maybe once in a full moon if your installing a game?Could a game installer even push 300+mbps on writes?

I like to think my set up is humble,i don't worry much about bottlenecks either considering i just went 1440p. I would need a pair of 980 ti and a sli compatible 1155 motherboard before my cpu even ended being a bottleneck for 1440p if even then lol.

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USB 3 is overrated, as long as you don't use external drives every single day, you don't need to worry. No to mention nehalem and sandy bridge chipsets used external controller which wasn't very reliable.